mistakes to round out our month here of 14 videos celebrating 14 years in

business for Tarle speech our word today is breath and breath is air in and

out of the lungs versus the word breast which can mean a chest or mammary

glands of a woman so let's take a look at both of these words and we're going

to break these words into three parts to attack this whole situation here

all right so number one we have the B R combination br br br to do this what you're

going to do is you are going to have your lips closed for the B while your

lips are closed for the b think in your brain I'm going to say an R sound

and get your tongue in position for the R sound as you know if you've been

watching my videos the tip of your tongue can either be down with a back

pulled up or the tip of the tongue can be flipped back with the back of the

tongue scrunched back so if you have your tongue ready for the R br br all you do

is open your lips from the B into that square tense lip shape for the R and you

should have the br be sure to do this smoothly you don't want to say bah ruh

there's no extra vowel in there br br next we're going to move to that

short e sound to do that you're going to have your mouth slightly open and your

lips are going to be more relaxed and the tip of your tongue will be between

your top and your bottom teeth you can see it just peeking out eh eh eh

if you're having trouble with this you can actually try to touch the inside of

your teeth with the back of your tongue this helps some people and that will

help you get your tongue and the right spot for that sound so we have breath

and then for the first word breath we're going to end this word by sticking your

tongue out of your mouth allowing the air to

over the top of your tongue and I tell my students do not touch your teeth so

that you do not say the T sound because when you say the T sound that's going to

lead our mistake in this next word so let's put this all together breath

breath breath now for the word breast they start exactly the same way but then

what you're going to do is you are going to end with the s T I think this happens

because for the th one of the mistakes I hear is that people keep their tongue in

their mouth and when you keep your tongue in your mouth it sounds like a sss

sound and then they touch the teeth behind the tip of the tongue to the back

of the top front teeth and that makes the T sound so then you have breast

breast breast so let's contrast those two words we have breath breath breath

and breast breast breast and let's try it in a sentence

when you take a deep breath your breast will rise and fall give it a try I know

people are going to notice the difference if you found this helpful

we'd love a like and a share don't forget to subscribe and if you have any

questions check out many many answers that we have for you on Tarle Speech

dot com thanks so much